Following a letter from Boston University President Robert A. Brown on Tuesday in response to the backlash newly hired professor Dr. Saida Grundy faced over her tweets about American white masculinity, she’s released her own statement. »5/13/15 12:30pm 5/13/15 12:30pm

Boston University president Robert A. Brown has responded to the public backlash facing newly hired professor Dr. Saida Grundy over tweets about white masculinity in America that some interpreted as racist.»5/12/15 5:10pm 5/12/15 5:10pm

The whiteness and the male-ness of those Sunday morning political talk shows on various networks like Face the Nation (CBS) or Meet the Press (NBC) or This Week (ABC) isn't exactly news. According to Media Matters' analysis of ethnicity and gender of Sunday morning talk shows published earlier this year, between ABC,… »6/15/14 2:45pm 6/15/14 2:45pm

Are white men particularly prone to carrying out the all-too-familiar mass killings of which last week's Aurora shooting is just the latest iteration? Is there something about the white, male, middle-class experience that makes it easier for troubled young men to turn schools and movie theaters into killing fields? In… »7/24/12 6:20pm 7/24/12 6:20pm

If you're a black woman in America and you want to get married, statistics indicate that you're likely to have a hard time of it. Almost seventy percent of American black women are unmarried. Over half of black women's marriages to black men end in divorce. »8/07/11 12:32pm 8/07/11 12:32pm

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baby deer »10/01/08 5:30pm 10/01/08 5:30pm, delivered via c-section after its mother was hit by a car is officially The Cutest Thing, Ever. • Speaking of C-sections, a has found that pregnant Asian women whose male partners are Caucasian are more likely to have a Cesarean than white women who have Asian or white male partners. • On…